Uncle Toms Cabin Thesis

Uncle Toms Cabin was highly influential on the abolitionist(anti-slave) movement and how the meaning behind racism of the book of impacts the nation. Slavery was introduced in 1620 and went to the 18th century. One dutch ship brought the first 20 slaves to Jamestow, Virginia, where they were sold and bought. They were brought to do the dirtywork of the slave owner such as to aid in the production of crops like tobacco and cotton. All slaves counted as ⅗ of one person for the population for taxation and representation of congress. What was it like to be a slave? Many people dont know thesuffering and abuse they had to go through just to surive ona day to day basis. Slaves lived in little shacks no bigger than a small room where they worked on …show more content…
She was a huge impact in the 18th century who eventually created the book Uncle Toms Cabin. Stowe was the 7th child born into a warm loving family. She attended Pierce Academy then moved to Cincinnati where she met the love of her life, Calvin Ellis Stowe. Six out of Seven of their children were born in Cincinnati. Sadly the stowes lost their 18 month old baby to Cholera, a disease causing severe diarrhea and dehydration usually spread in water. In 1850, the stowes wanted a new start so they moved to Maine to raise their family. Around the same time the fugitive slave act was passed, re-enslavement of escaped slaves. Not only did the fugitive slave act drive her to write Uncle Tom 's cabin but sodid the loss of her child, she wrote the book to help her understand the pain of enslaved mothers had to go through when they lost their child. The idea of the book came from when she lived in a slave state. Previously Stowe lived in Kentucky where she was acquainted with abolitionists and run away slaves who told her tales of appalling treatment there drive for freedom. A few months later, Stowe hired a small scaled servant girl. Later on she heard that the girls owner was looking for her. At that time due to the fugitive slave act the owner could seize her and take her back to slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet 's brother- Henry ward Beecher and Calvin Stowe armed themselves and put the girl in a wagon and drove her to …show more content…
It provided slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to free states. This law was unpopular in the north and helped convert indifferent northerners to anti-slavery. In the book, Arthur and Emily Shelby face the loss of their farm. Eliza, a slave overheard that the Shelbys are going to sell Elisas sons because they are forced bt debt. So Eliza and her sons run away, but are eventually captured by slave hunters. Simon legree, a cruel slave owner demands Tom to whip Eliza And her sons. Legree ends up not liking Tom because he didn 't listen to his order to whip them for escaping. Eliza and her sons eventually try to cross into Canada, while Tom is doing everything he can to help them be free along the way. Tom and his perspective of things change positively understanding the treatment and troubles of slavery along the way. Legree orders people to kill Tom. With George being too late to save Tom, he goes back home to free all the slaves. When this book got published there was a lot of talk throughout the nation. The north thought the book was positive and started thinking that slavery was immoral and started embracing antislavery movements, while the southerners were more spirited in their defence of slavery.This book increased the criticism of slavery more than ever which made abolitionist societies stand up and demand the immediate end of slavery. This caused a serious outbreak between